19 Best mystery thriller books like Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery by Delia C. Pitts

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Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery

By: Delia C. Pitts

4.11

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

When Shelba Rook’s home burns down, he realizes he has nothing left. What’s a jobless, homeless pri…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery by Delia C. Pitts , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27) by Michael    Connelly

1. The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

By: Michael Connelly

4.13

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So w… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I have waited twenty years for this phone call . . . and all this time I thought it would go away. I knew I would always be sad for my sister. But I thought the other would go away."

-Michael Connelly, The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

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2. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

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3. Deadly Beloved

By: Max Allan Collins

3.53

Format: 203 pages, Mass Market Paperback

While investigating the case of Marcy Addwatter, who killed her husband and his lover, P.I. Ms. Mic… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29) by Michael    Connelly

4. The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

By: Michael Connelly

4.34

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the…"

-Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

Cover of A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak, #2) by Dana Stabenow

5. A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak, #2)

By: Dana Stabenow

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On her homestead in the middle of twenty million acres of national Park, Aleut P.I. Kate Shugak is … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

6. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #11) by Michael    Connelly

7. Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #11)

By: Michael Connelly

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstret… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

8. The Last Quarry (Quarry #7)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Coming out of retirement to do one last--and extremely lucrative--job for a media magnate, professi… read more

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9. Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.17

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more

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  • fiction
"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

10. A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, #4)

By: Lawrence Block

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended Icepick Prowler, freely admits to having slain seven young w… read more

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11. The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #18; Harry Bosch Universe, #22)

By: Michael Connelly

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992… read more

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12. Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

By: Lee Child

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Women are being murdered nationwide by a killer who leaves no trace of evidence, no fatal wounds, n… read more

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13. The Drop (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #21)

By: Michael Connelly

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more… read more

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14. Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)

By: Lee Child

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child's new "rip-roaring thriller" ("Denver Rocky Mountain News"). This… read more

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15. The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #20; Mickey Haller, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

By: Michael Connelly

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defen… read more

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16. The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch, #14; Mickey Haller, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)

By: Michael Connelly

4.71

Format: None pages,

Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, H… read more

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17. Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

By: Michael Connelly

3.77

Format: None pages,

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Conne… read more

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18. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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19. Lone Wolf (Orphan X, #9)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.37

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep und… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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21. In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

3.79

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an a… read more

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  • new york
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts."

-Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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22. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32) by Michael    Connelly

23. Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)

By: Michael Connelly

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1) by James  Patterson

24. Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1)

By: James Patterson

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and August Poe run the most in-demand private investigation firm in… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"In this quiet room, surrounded by tales of mystery and deception, she felt most like herself."

-James Patterson, Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1)

Cover of While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1) by Stacey Abrams

25. While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)

By: Stacey Abrams

3.96

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Why American history? Other nations have achieved greatness with less hubris and narcissism." "Agreed. But America is a contradictory and precocious country, sir. We have, in a very short period of t…"

-Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)

Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

26. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) by Naomi Hirahara

27. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1) by Margot Douaihy

28. Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

By: Margot Douaihy

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat,…"

-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

"I loved the chase. Even Riveaux’s insane driving. Not just the velocity but the violence of it all. I liked speeding through red lights. Headfirst to the edge. Scraping enough skin to burn not bleed.…"

-Margot Douaihy, Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

Cover of Double Mocha Blues (Joss Miller Mysteries Book 1) by Tyora Moody

29. Double Mocha Blues (Joss Miller Mysteries Book 1)

By: Tyora Moody

4.29

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Jocelyn “Joss” Miller, a twenty-something barista, works at Sugar Creek Cafe, a hip coffeehouse wit… read more

Similar categories in Tyora Moody's Double Mocha Blues (Joss Miller Mysteries Book 1) book and Delia C. Pitts's Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery

  • mystery
Cover of It's Elementary by Elise Bryant

30. It's Elementary

By: Elise Bryant

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too in… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter."

-Elise Bryant, It's Elementary

Cover of Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery by Delia C. Pitts

31. Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery

By: Delia C. Pitts

4.11

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

When Shelba Rook’s home burns down, he realizes he has nothing left. What’s a jobless, homeless pri… read more

Similar categories in Delia C. Pitts's Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery book and Delia C. Pitts's Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery

  • new york
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21 Best fiction books like Lost and Found in Harlem: A Ross Agency Mystery by Delia C. Pitts

Transform Your Habits

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Michael Connelly

4.13

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The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Max Allan Collins

4.01

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Deadly Beloved

Max Allan Collins

3.53

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The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

Michael Connelly

4.34

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Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

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Robert B. Parker

3.92

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Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

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Ross Macdonald

3.58

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